bunnyf
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Griffins, I also find the soprano handy in say a bluegrass mixed instrument jam. I may lead with a Bari but if I'm just jammin' in and there is no mando player, the soprano makes a good substitute.
No, in Sweden sopranos are THE ukulele still. Anything else is a step aside from what's normal. All music stores carry some low cost sopranos, a few carry some good ones, and very few carry the other sizes at all.I wonder if this is still the case. I expect it's true of people who took up the uke a decade or two back (and earlier) and it does seem there are more entry level, budget priced sopranos than other sizes, but it seems like some people in recent years have come to uke through Iz or Jake S. and may start out on tenors (?)
Also it seems that many of the YT vids I see of really incredible, acrobatic players are playing on tenors.
Again, nothing at all wrong with that!
I just wonder if the popularity of the soprano has been superseded by larger sizes...
Griffins, I also find the soprano handy in say a bluegrass mixed instrument jam. I may lead with a Bari but if I'm just jammin' in and there is no mando player, the soprano makes a good substitute.
I saw a bluegrass band a few weeks back that had, in lieu of a banjo, a cavaquinho player. That instrument is similar to uke, but usually tuned like a 5-string banjo minus the drone string.
But I have to admit, part of me, when playing or listening to a soprano, automatically thinks "Okay, THIS is a ukulele.".
When I decided to start playing the ukulele I researched it on the internet and became confused. So using my own logic I decided that the Baritone was more like a four string guitar and that I wasn't interested in playing a small four string guitar, so I decided that if I got the middle sized one. So that is what I started with, and that is what I play. I did have a soprano that I won, but I gave it away. Then I won another soprano. I'm going to give it away too. If you ask my why, I will say that I don't like it. If you ask my why I don't like it, I'll tell you that I don't know.
To the people that think a soprano is too small , try a soprano with a wide nut , Martins do it for me.
I have a nice Ohana which I almost never play because of the narrow nut. I can see how people are turned off to sopranos because of the narrow nut on most imported ukes.